What You Have

Credits and production notes

Made by

Created by: Keenen Thompson
Script, direction and engineering: Claude (Anthropic), working with Keenen Thompson

Cast

Character	Voice	Figure
Mara	Sarah	Rocketbox Female Adult 11
Mr. Vale	Bill	Rocketbox Male Adult 03
Nia	Laura	Rocketbox Female Adult 12
Eli	Jessica, pitched up	Rocketbox Male Child 02
The woman with the handbag	Bella	Rocketbox Female Adult 15
The man with the watch	Eric	Rocketbox Business Male 01
The person at the hatch	Matilda	Rocketbox Chef Female 01
The man with the toilet paper	Will	Rocketbox Male Adult 18
The neighbor who helps	Chris	Rocketbox Male Adult 17
Neighbors with the table	Roger, Callum	Rocketbox Male Adult 12, Delivery Male 01
Radio	Brian
Television	River

All voices are synthetic, generated with ElevenLabs. Nobody in this film is a real person.

Sound

Room tones and effects: Generated with ElevenLabs
Footsteps and impacts: Kenney, Impact Sounds (CC0)
Mix and score: Mixed in code for this film

Picture

Rendering: Path-traced in Blender Cycles
People and motion capture: Microsoft Rocketbox Avatar Library (MIT, notice)
Scanned surfaces, sky and props: Poly Haven (CC0)
Title typeface: Bodoni Moda (SIL Open Font License)
The money: Prop bills designed for this film, with Mr. Vale in the portrait and the building on the back. They don’t reproduce the artwork of any genuine note.

What it draws on

The crisis is invented. How people respond to it isn't.

The power strip with a time limit. After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New Yorkers with power ran extension cords out of their windows to sidewalk power strips, so strangers could charge their phones. Reporting at the time.
Food that can’t be sold. In the 2003 blackout, restaurants and bodegas gave away what wouldn’t keep, and neighbors ate together in the street. New Yorkers’ accounts.
The fridge in the courtyard. Community fridges appeared on Brooklyn sidewalks in 2020, stocked and cleaned by neighbors, as mutual aid rather than charity. Brooklyn Based.
The barter that left people out. Argentina’s barter clubs after its 2001 banking crisis drew millions of people. Truthout.

Watching it your way

Captions for every line and important sound, on by default.
Describe scenes puts what’s on screen into words, for screen readers too.
Time to read waits for you at the end of each line.
The text version is the whole film as something to read, with the same choices.
Keyboard: Space or K to pause, C captions, D descriptions, M mute, F full screen, left arrow to go back 5 seconds. Tab and Enter for choices.

Thanks

This film ends at a site that exists. nyc.exchange is a money-free neighborhood exchange for New York City. Goods, skills, time. Five boroughs. Zero dollars.

The listings shown on Nia’s phone in the film are fictional.